[Outages-discussion] [outages] Equinix Exchange contacts

[Brandon Bianchi]

The person you really want to talk to is your AM/AE and/or Sales Engineer
and not the NOC. They don't have the ability to deviate from what was
ordered especially when it comes to more than 1 IP. Did you request two
IP's on your CRD when the service was ordered?

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> I concur:
>
> The people you want to have this conversation with are over on NANOG.
>
>
> On November 21, 2017 11:51:44 AM EST, James Cornman <
> james at atlanticmetro.net> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for moving. I was unaware of this list.
>>
>> In my opinion, this requirement is a bit extraneous, however the
>> downstream customer with this mandate is pretty passionate about this
>> configuration. That being said, the benefit is that if any peer has a
>> preference for either one of our next hops (we cant control their route
>> selection to ensure they do ECMP), we still get the upside of the extra
>> capacity, as well as port level redundancy. I can't imagine having 1 more
>> mac address in the exchange point's port-security criteria is overly
>> complicated. That apparently is the biggest point of contention with
>> Equinix thus far, since its "non standard". To note, we're not even
>> requiring different chassis on the exchange point side; just want to take
>> advantage of the MC LAG on our side so from the Equinix side, its pretty
>> simple to make us go away :)
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Hugo Slabbert <hslabbert at demonware.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Moved to outages-discussion.
>>>
>>> This seems like outages-discussion at outages.org at best and likely more
>>> suited to nanog.  I don't see anything related to an outage on this.
>>>
>>> On the surface, why not do discrete L3 links and equal-cost across the
>>> members rather than shoving L2 redundancy and complexity (MC-LAG) in the
>>> middle only to stuff L3 redundancy back over top of it (multiple IPs &
>>> discrete routing protocol sessions)?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Hugo
>>>
>>> On Tue 2017-Nov-21 11:14:51 -0500, Chad Austin via Outages <
>>> outages at outages.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you describe what the end result would look like?
>>>>
>>>> -Chad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/21/2017 11:11 AM, James Cornman via Outages wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone present with some contacts / influence with Equinix regarding
>>>>> their Exchange product?
>>>>>
>>>>> We're working to establish what they consider a unique situation thats
>>>>> not supported, and we're mostly getting told NO from the Equinix NOC w/o
>>>>> any escalation, and I'm looking to get someone with more technical
>>>>> expertise to talk to.
>>>>>
>>>>> We're looking to establish 2x10Gbps connections in an LACP LAG, with 2
>>>>> IP addresses; 1 per MC LAG member, so we get the benefit of redundancy and
>>>>> capacity. Apparently the 2 IP address thing is the current show stopper. I
>>>>> haven't received any meaningful feedback as to whether this is a political
>>>>> problem or a technical one.
>>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, Other exchange points support this such as Any2 and NYIIX, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> -James
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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